Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall "locale" Path Traversal
36Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.7epss 1.2%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 21
metasploitOct 8
exploitation probability
1.2%top 36% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view_help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Barracuda Networks · Spam & Virus FirewallBarracuda Networks · SSL VPNBarracuda Networks · Web Application FirewallReferences
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/barracuda_directory_traversal.rbhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101004131244/http://secunia.com/advisories/41609/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15130https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/barracuda-multiple-products-locale-path-traversal